Address to the Law Class at the University of North Carolina, 31 January, 1919. - Couverture souple

Clark J.D., Walter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1240014872 ISBN 13 : 9781240014873

Editeur : Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2010

Synopsis

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.
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Harvard Law School Library

CTRG95-B1334

Also, Infallible government by the odd man (American Law Review). 'Making the word of none effect by their traditions' (Reprinted from the Public). Judicial supremacy without warrant in the Constitution (Reprinted from The Public)

[S.l.: s.n., 1919?]. 23 p.; 23 cm

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Bench. But sooner or later the routine is too powerful for most. The habit of consulting precedents and yielding obedience to the thoughts of dead men as embodied in the decisions of the priests and laymen, who as judges created the common law, is too strong, and the habit of delay and postponement becomes a part of their existence. After they enter the profession some undergo the same metamorphosis as the sisters of Phsethon or Daphne, so vividly described by Ovid, and become rooted in the debris of the past and immobile; but, unlike Daphne, they are not changed into laureL THE EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL VETO The President of Harvard College in a recent work truthfully declared that in this country public opinion and the will of the people are slower in gaining control than any other country in the world. This may seem strange to you, but the fact is that our Constitution is now the oldest upon the planet. In this country almost alone the Executive still has a veto, which was given lest the Senate and House might not prove safe and sane. In all the States of this Union, except North Carolina, the State constitution has put the same bridle in the hands of the Governor. In England, the formality of the sovereign approving the acts of Parliament is retained, but it is only a formality, for no executive in that country since 1707 has dared to veto an act of Parliament. In the other constitutions of the world, with few if any exceptions, the executive or sovereign is denied any veto upon the expression of the will of the people through its lawmaking body. In this country we have gone further by allowing also the assumption by the other coordinate department of the government, the judicial, of the power to veto the action of the representatives chosen by the people to formulate their will into law. This power is not conferred by any provision in the Constitution of t
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Making of Modern Law
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1240014872
• ISBN 13: 9781240014873
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 30
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible